Marie Curie Actions: Inspiring Researchers - Imdea

now able to trace the movement of light energy in real time. Newknowledge on electrical conductivity across a single moleculein the presence of irradiation will also assist in the developmentof new molecular-electronic devices.The project results are so exciting that the team has not been ableto keep them to itself. A golden opportunity to communicate thescience and share the team’s enthusiasm with the public camealong with the ‘Researchers’ Night’ in Italy, where Marie CurieFellows used animations, games and even a song to explaintheir attempts to watch how energy ‘jumps’ from molecule tomolecule. Their audience included experts, non-experts, studentsand young children. Such was the demand that a team of 4 wasrun off its feet for 11 hours.The team’s fun and engaging approach to communication wasvery successful in raising awareness among the general publicof the energy options for the future, and they encourage otherresearchers to seek similar opportunities: it is fun, useful andultimately very rewarding.And the communication drive did not end with the closing ofthe team’s show: Dr Luer followed this with interviews for Italiannational radio and the Italian Research Council’s television channel.Dr Luer’s career path has clearly benefi ted from Marie Curieinvolvement. ‘After my PhD in photoconductivity, my researchinterests required a new technique with higher temporal resolution.I began my career as a Marie Curie Fellow in femtosecondspectroscopy. After the fellowship, I was offered the positionas senior researcher at the femtosecond lab at Politecnico diMilano,’ he says.Dr Luer now cooperates with leading European groups in molecularbiology, device technology and supramolecular chemistry, thistime as a Marie Curie project coordinator.Bimore may be working at the molecular level, but its impactsare expected to be huge. The consortium will be expanding intomicroscopic and nanopatterning techniques that have the potentialto control the morphology of artifi cial systems at the nanoscale.Project acronymBimoreFull project titleBio-inspired approaches for molecular electronicsType of grantTraining NetworkBudgetEUR 2 773 000Duration of project01-10-2006 - 30-09-2010Scientific disciplineEngineeringHost institutionCoordinated by Larry LuerMadrid Institute of Advanced StudiesIMDEA nanocienciaModulo 13Av. Tomas y Valiente, 7ES-28049 Madrid231